International investment law is one vehicle that neoliberalism has harnessed to facilitate deregulation, privatisation and competition in ways that more democratic spaces would ostensibly not permit. It is naïve to think that mega-regional agreements like CETA and their investor protection...

Considering the third-country effects on bilateral incentives to sign a new PTA, we develop a theory-based empirical approach to access how a country's pre-existing PTAs affect her formation of a new PTA. Our empirical analysis using the theory-based measures of these effects confirms that a...

We study the welfare impact of rules of origin in free trade agreements where final-good producers source customized inputs from suppliers within the trading bloc. We employ a property-rights framework that features hold-up problems in suppliers' decisions to invest, and where underinvestment is...